Agile and Complex projects

Catching up with my posts… Here is the trigger of this post: an interesting twitter discussion with my #entarch fellow: @RSessions mcgoverntheory: Most #CIO dont know how to deal with issues in #Agile projects. Troubled projects lead to a backlash against #agile approaches. Endless loop 12:17pm, Nov 01 from Web RSessions: @mcgoverntheory Agile methodology methodology […]

New year, new certification

Until recently, virtually all IT certifications have been based on an individual’s recollection of a body of knowledge and their ability to pass a computer-based test. Perhaps a better method of evaluating competence to carry out a specific role is to examine the skills and experience that an individual has demonstrated in his/her work. Continue reading

Aggregated EA wisdom

I have launched a new service called EA Blogs, which is a thematic aggregator of enterprise architecture blog feeds. A ‘planet‘, or as Dave Winer would call it, a river. Or whatever. The EA Blogs engine fetches new blog entries from around 20 enterprise architects within an hour after they are […]

Establishing an Enterprise Architecture function

When establishing (or indeed re-establishing) a brand new Enterprise Architecture function within an organisation there are perhaps two main approaches: A big bang approach A gradual iterative incremental approach I favour the big bang approach. This is for several reasons: 1) a big bang send a clear and confident message to everyone in the organisation that […]

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike:

tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need it? http://bit.ly/hPBME3 #entarch #itarch #orgarch #systems
jdevoo: MIT SMR Analytics: New Path to Value http://bit.ly/g0ExUs – […]